Therefore communist countries in the Warsaw pact helped each other when one country was in a rough situation. ... He believed that the best way to do it was to use terror in the country. ... Most of the people were trapped because they could not leave the country. ... Elena, his wife, was appointed to the Central Committee in 1972 and immediately her power began to increase . ... He also wanted to be independent from western countries. ...

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He was the third child born to Vissarion Dzhugashvili, a poor shoemaker and his wife Yekaterina, who worked as a house cleaner. ... Workingmen of all countries, unite!" ... Within a few months, opposition to the new government developed in many parts of the country. ... They then began to rebuild the war-torn country. ...

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But Stalin's grip on power was not shaken, save perhaps in his home, where his wife Nadezhda committed suicide in 1932. ... After Germany fell, he used Red Army troops to forcibly install Communist governments in Eastern Europe and further his country's interests around the world. ... Part 1:The Great Terror and the Nazi-Soviet Pact In the early 1930s, a famine developed in the Ukraine; learning of the suffering there, Stalin's wife Nadezhda confronted him, demanding that he remedy the situation. The couple had a tremendous fight, and Stalin ordered the arrest of the students...

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Joseph Stalin was the soviet communist leader who's passing molded an era, and whose iron rule determined the lives of millions of people. Considering that he shaped the direction of post-World War II Europe, we may regard him as the most powerful person to live during the 20th century. Joseph Sta...

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Since Germany has caused these problems, how can we let them be their own autonomous country? If we let them have their own country again, would they just then try to start another war? ... Also, new countries were formed and these countries were "Yugoslavia, Austria, Hungry, Czechoslovakia, and Poland. These countries were carved out of the homelands of the defeated central powers" (Mack 667). ... As time goes on Germany starts to take on the shape of the countries that are running it. ...

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There are many events that have shaped the history of our country. ... Sometimes life presents insignificant moments as well, but even these moments are considered part of our countries history. ... By a vote of five-hundred and sixty-eight to four-hundred and four, the following requirements, which were approved by delegates across the country, were added to the churches standards for ministry: "Since the practice of homosexuality is incompatible with Christian teaching, self-avowed, practicing homosexuals are not to be accepted as candidates, ordained as ministers or appointed to serve ...

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In no Eastern European country did the revolution have the support of more than a minority of people, yet this minority retained absolute control. ... For example Stalin engineered a communist coup in May 1948 in Czechoslovakia in which a government minister Masaryk was killed and the president was forced to resign. (7) This served a warning to other countries against resisting the communist regime. ... After 1956 however, with Khrushchev's new approach to Socialism and his denunciation of Stalin, there were increasing calls for independence among the communist bloc countries who ...

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In no Eastern European country did the revolution have the support of more than a minority of people, yet this minority retained absolute control. ... For example Stalin engineered a communist coup in May 1948 in Czechoslovakia in which a government minister Masaryk was killed and the president was forced to resign. (7) This served a warning to other countries against resisting the communist regime. ... After 1956 however, with Khrushchev's new approach to Socialism and his denunciation of Stalin, there were increasing calls for independence among the communist bloc countries who ...

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In no Eastern European country did the revolution have the support of more than a minority of people, yet this minority retained absolute control. ... For example Stalin engineered a communist coup in May 1948 in Czechoslovakia in which a government minister Masaryk was killed and the president was forced to resign. (7) This served a warning to other countries against resisting the communist regime. ... After 1956 however, with Khrushchev's new approach to Socialism and his denunciation of Stalin, there were increasing calls for independence among the communist bloc countries who ...

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"So anxious were they to prove themselves useful contributing members of this new society they took into their hands the active reorganization of the artistic life of the country" (Gray 219). ... The October Revolution first year anniversary best portrays the mood of the country and the artists. ... IZO was Responsible for organizing the country's artistic ideology under the new Soviet Government. ...

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Proposal Type of study -Overlooking contrasting approaches to a historical personality, issue or event -How has history been constructed and recorded over time? -Why have the approaches to the construction of history changed over time? This essay was originally to deal with debates regarding Soviet Russian history. This sphere of interest became more specific and eventually led to a study of inconsistencies regarding historical justifications of Khrushchev's dismissal of war hero Marshall Zhukov. However, while a variety of sources were available regarding his Western counterpa...

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